William Mebane 28 Apr 1779 Mason Hall, Orange Co NC – 3 May 1856 Orange Co married Northampton Co NC ca 1798 Mary Wood 8 Oct 1780 – 21 Jan 1846 Mebane, NC
Burial: Location – five miles from the intersection of NC Highways Nos. 119 and 70-A, in Mebane, NC, is this family burial plot of a pioneer family.
Driving north to the home of Col. Van R. White, turn right just past his house, then turn right into a farm yard at the first house on the right.
The cemetery is in a pasture back of the house, enclosed with a dry rock wall.Survey from the notes of Durward T. Stokes recorded with Col. Van R. White on March 8, 1959. Mebane Family Cemetery. (Web site by Allen Dew).

Note: This William Mebane son of Alexander Mebane II and who married Mary Wood of Northampton Co NC is a separate person from the son of Capt William Mebane, William Brown Mebane who married Frances Woods in Orange Co in 1797

After the death of her mother Sarah/Sallie Oct 1814, Julia Munroe Wheeler b April 1814 stays with this family in Orange County until her father married his third wife Sept 1816.

Mary Wood & William Mebane of Mason Hall, Orange Co, NC had:1. Dr. Alexander Wood Mebane 1800 – 5 Feb 1847 age 47 married 27 Jan 1824 Mary E Collins Howe 1805 – 29 Oct 1855 age 50 From Moore’s History of NC Vol II, p16- Concerning the Legislature of 1829 “Among the new members of this year was Dr. Alexander Wood Mebane of Bertie. He was reared in Orange, but had married his cousin Mary Howe of the Hermitage on Chowan River and dwelt at that noble homestead.

POOL, John, (uncle of Walter Freshwater Pool), a Senator from North Carolina; born near Elizabeth City, Pasquotank County, N.C., June 16, 1826; was tutored at home and graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1847; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1847 and practiced in Elizabeth City, N.C., 1847-1856; also engaged in agricultural pursuits; member, State senate 1856, 1858, 1864-1865; unsuccessful Whig candidate for governor in 1860; delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1865; presented credentials dated December 29, 1865, as a Republican Senator-elect to the United States Senate on February 8, 1866, but was not permitted to take his seat because the State had not been readmitted to representation; upon the readmission of North Carolina was again elected to the United States Senate and served from July 14, 1868, to March 3, 1873; was not a candidate for reelection; chairman, Committee on Revolutionary Claims (Forty-second Congress); resumed the practice of law in Washington, D.C., where he died August 16, 1884; interment in Oak Hill Cemetery
.i. John Pool 30 July 1862 [bapt Aug 30 1863] – 31 July 1911 DC married 1893 Mary Frances Drinkard 15 Jan 1854 VA – 9 Dec 1911 DC ii. Mary Howe Pool iii. another child 2nd daughterJohn Pool had first married Narcissa D Sawyer 1830 – 14 Jan 1856 Elizabeth City NCi. Gaston Pool 1 June 1851 – 15 Nov 1852 ii. Mary Lela Pool 28 March 1852 – 20 March 1909 DC married 1st Edward L Mills of Illinois1. Edward Pool Mills 1875 Falls Church VA – 1960 LA married 2nd Dr. Joseph S F Sessford Washington DC1. Grace Sessford May 1890 – 6 July 1892 Washington DCf. Alexander Wood Mebane 1841 – 30 Nov 1871 Bertie Co NC g. Thaddeus Mebane died 1845

“The carriage was still in use when my mother lived there as a child. It was used to take the family to church on Sunday. It made my mother sick to ride in the closed carriage so her great aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Green Jordan came by on Sundays and she rode with them in their open carriage. Mrs. Jordan was born Ann Eliza Mebane and was John Howe Mebane’s sister.

She must have been quite a redoubtable lady. All their horses had been stolen except her riding horse. Word came to them that soldiers were nearly there. There wasn’t time to hide the horse so she grasped the nettle and told the negro man to put a bridle and her side saddle on the horse and bring her up to the mounting block at the house. While that was being done she donned her riding skirt. The horse was brought up and she mounted. The soldiers appeared and there mounted on the horse was this very erect lady. She was probably in her late fifties or early sixties. She was ordered down. She didn’t budge. Again she was ordered to dismount and told they were taking the horse for the Union Army. She stayed put. The third time she told the men, “If you get this horse, you are going to have to kill me first and drag me off.” The party roamed over the place and came back and the same scene was repeated. They went off again and again she looked them down. None of them had the nerve to reach up and drag her off the horse. Finally, the men went off to hunt for easier prey.

My mother remembered her aunt. The children called her “Auntie Jordan.” Mama said when Auntie sat in a chair or on a sofa her back never touched the back of the chair.” from Tennessee Tales [related by Nannie.

5. Mary Frances [Fannie] Mebane ca 1821 – married 4 Nov 1851 Orange Co Dr. John W Bond May 1811 Bertie Co NC- Aug 1856 buried Mebane, Alamance Co NC
received M.D. 1834 University of PA removed to Ark. list of Mebane siblings from Wheeler’s Reminicences and 1866 Power of AttorneyNCGSJ Vol 3 page 11 power of attorney
Mebane, John H.; William G. Mebane, Sr; and Green D. Jordan and his wife Eliza., -all of Fayette co, Tn and Mary F. Bond of the State of Arkansas, 20 Mar 1866, appoint William A Mebane of Bertie Co, NC their attorney to sell a tract of swamp land (1,037 acres in all) in Martin Co., NC which descended to them from William Moring, deceased, in common with others, or was bequeathed by the last will and testament of said Moring, their interest being 4/5 of their 1/2 of the said land, which consisted of the lower Dunstan Patent, the Spruill & Morse Tract. the Peter Roscoe Patent #1 and #2 and the William Jordan Patent.